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Secular Sensibilities

By Selby, Jennifer A.

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Secular Sensibilities

By Selby, Jennifer A.

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"How do secular politics work to manage the emotional, affective, and embodied nature of religion in the public sphere? Drawing on an expansive transnational ethnography in France and Canada and assessing contemporary French and Quâebecois governmental legislation on secularism and immigration, Jennifer Selby considers expectations for secular bodies and sensibilities among men and women of Algerian origin. In her subjects' evocative narratives of longing and belonging, Selby charts how secular sensibilities emerge in marriage partner preferences, family relationships, rituals, dress, and more. Selby reveals how these sensibilities develop and respond to legal and other forms of state authority, with legacies of colonialism in France and Quâebec playing a substantial role. In demonstrating how secularism is expressed and experienced around intimate relationships and civil marriage, Selby persuasively argues that romance is a crucial contact zone for the politics of secularism. Her study invites readers to wrestle with their own entanglements in state and cultural expectations of secular bodies and the liberal fictions of separation between the religious and public spheres"--
Product details
Number of Pages:
294
Release Date:
2025-05-20
Publication Date:
2025-05-20
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
146968585X
ISBN13:
9781469685854
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
662 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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